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Hi all,

I added a new GH group for PanelingTools Add-on to Grasshopper for Rhino 5.0:

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/panelingtools

This is a first BETA release and will likely change fast over the coming weeks. You will need to have the latest Rhino 5.0 BETA to run it. Details are posted in the group.

Please join the group and give PT_GH a try. Best place to post…

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The first edition of "Essential Mathematics for Computational Design" is now available with free download:

http://download.rhino3d.com/en/Rhino/4.0/EssentialMathematics/…

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This is an example of how to create a rectangular and diamond grids using VB.NT DataTrees to output a tree structure. Download Diagrid_GH09.gh to see the GH definition.

The following sample shows how to create new layer in Rhino document and set as current using a layer name as an input. Download Grasshopper definition (BakeToLayer.ghx)

This will probably become an embedded feature in Grasshopper, but for now you can create a custom select and custom bake components using VB.NET.

The following examples show the details (click to download) . They show how to select a paneling grid created using PanelingTools plugin for Rhino 4.0, manipulate… Continue

A cellular automaton consists of a regular grid of cells, each in one of a finite number of states, "On" and "Off" for example. The grid can be in any finite number of dimensions. For each cell, a set of cells called its neighborhood (usually including the cell itself) is defined relative to the specified cell. For example, the neighborhood of a cell might be defined as the set of cells a distance of 2 or less from the cell. An initial state (time t=0) is selected by assigning a state for…

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An L-system or Lindenmayer system is a parallel rewriting system, namely a variant of a formal grammar (a set of rules and symbols), most famously used to model the growth processes of plant development, but also able to model the morphology of a variety of organisms.

L-systems can also be used to generate self-similar fractals such as iterated function systems. L-systems were introduced and developed in 1968 by the Hungarian theoretical biologist and botanist from the University of…

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